Rape : challenging contemporary thinking : 10 years on
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Rape : challenging contemporary thinking : 10 years on
Routledge, 2023
2nd ed
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
It is a text that is useful for academics (and students) researching rape, but also practitioners working in the field (and some of the contributions are from practitioners themselves).
The book pulls together some of the key academic names thinking about/writing on rape, giving it real clout and credibility.
By dividing the book into three key areas; process and representation, victim vulnerabilities and the criminal justice system, it is wide reaching, comprehensive and evidence-based in its execution (more so than some of its competitors).
It leaves the reader with a detailed appreciation of what the challenges facing rape victims, the CJS and wider society are, and offers some sensible ways of tackling these issues/the justice gap at large.
Its focus on rape (as opposed to other/all forms of sexual violence) allows the book to drill down into the detail and build a comprehensive picture.
It has been brought fully up to date, in light of the vast amount of research that has been published in the last ten years around rape myths, the CJS, law, juries, legal practitioner responses and victim experiences.
It has been brought fully up to date, in light of the range of legal and policy changes/reforms over the last decade, and also now includes a focus on the digital.
It has been brought fully up to date, in light of national inquiries into sexual offences, exposure of institutional forms of abuse, global movements in response to sex crime (#MeToo), the re-emergence of activism (Black Lives Matter) and the speaking back to gendered power.
The new book reflects the global reach of research and thinking about rape, including more international coverage, with material for the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as well as the UK.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction
1: Setting the Scene: The Challenges of Researching Rape
2: Revisiting Emotionally Involved: The Impact of Researching Rape. Twenty Years (and Thousands of Stories) Later
3: Overcoming 'Othering': Reflections on Researching Police Responses to Victims of Sexual Violence
Part 2: Experiences of rape
4: Digital Sexual Violence and the Gendered Constraints of Consent in Youth Image Sharing
5: Race, Gender, and Policing: How to Increase Sexual Abuse Reporting by British South Asian Women
6: Power, Hierarchies, and Higher Education: Rape on Campus in India and the UK
7: Rape of Older People
Part 3: Concepts and Processes
8: Rape in the News: Contemporary Challenges
9: Pornography and Sexual Violence: Reflection on Policy Debates Around Age, Gender, and Harm
10: Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence: Reflections on the Concept
11: Modern Myths About Sexual Aggression: New Methods and Findings
Part 4: No such thing as Justice when it comes to rape?
12: Rape Law and Policy: Persistent Challenges and Future Directions
13: Who Gets to Challenge Contemporary Thinking on Rape? Contradictions and Confusion in Public Opinion of 'Rape Justice'
14: A Circle That Cannot Be Squared? Survivor Confidence in an Adversarial Justice System
Part 5: What can be done? Thoughts on prevention, activism and justice
15 :Engaging Men and Boys in the Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence
16: African-Caribbean British Women's Activism and Agency on Childhood Sexual Abuse from the 1970s-1980s
17: Online Anti-Rape Activism: Fighting Back Against Rape Culture
18: Creative and Transformative Approaches to Justice
19: Conclusions: What's it Going to Take?
by "Nielsen BookData"